Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2199 Using technology to make technology

(The idea of ​​Rokid is actually ChatGPT, but you can see the release time of the relevant chapters. When I wrote this, ChatGPT was not yet popular, and Ziweixing had already developed Rokid as the core artificial intelligence product. Weekly rebirth At that time, ChatGPT was not good enough, and his general AI was not a prophetic imitation of ChatGPT, but a general trend.)
Although Zhou Buqi does not understand technology, he has a very accurate understanding of the development of the technology industry. All technological revolutions in the Internet in the future cannot be separated from the three major directions of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and metaverse.

Therefore, we must spare no effort to support Ziweiyun!

For artificial intelligence, of course, there can be no slack, no matter whether you are a general AI product or a special AI product, Ziweixing will not let it go.

As for the metaverse...

Let’s experiment with Changyou first, and try to integrate it with the currency circle. Zhou Buqi has already had some bold ideas for this.

However, Zhou Shaoning didn't understand to some extent.

He knows that by authorizing Rokid to Samsung, Ziweixing can get various benefits, such as getting a big order and earning a lot of money!
After a few years, maybe you can earn 10 billion US dollars!
Not only that, relying on such a platform as Samsung mobile phones, Rokid will become famous and become the most famous AI voice product in the industry, establishing a strong brand.

Especially when the original version of Rokid Assistant is launched on domestic WeChat, Weibo, and overseas Helo, Ucgram, YikYak and other platforms in the future, more and more users will participate to train and strengthen Rokid.

But here comes the problem!
Ziweixing and Asda are two companies!
The cooperation between Rokid and Samsung has many benefits for Ziwei Star, but how does it help Astar?Samsung mobile phones also have Rokid voice assistants. Many users who bought Aster series mobile phones because of Rokid may buy Samsung mobile phones.

Overall, this matter is harmful to Asda!
Zhou Buqi said: "Rokid is Ziweixing's core product in the field of artificial intelligence. It is necessary to eliminate all distractions and develop it comprehensively. However, the voice version of Rokid installed on mobile phones is limited by technology, and its development in the next few years will be slow. Relatively limited. After the shelf life of the gimmick, the effect of the selling point is not so strong."

Zhou Shaoning tentatively asked: "How long is the shelf life? One year? Two years? Now is a critical stage in the development of smartphones. Letting Samsung get the Rokid within a year or two will put a lot of pressure on Asda."

Zhou Buqi said: "It's not that serious, and now that Motorola has completed the acquisition, a series of mid-range Motorola phones will be launched next, and in a year or two, lower-end Motorola-branded phones will also appear. It needs to be paired with Rokid. Lower the threshold, and the novelty will pass quickly.”

"Ah."

Zhou Shaoning acquiesced, this is indeed a reason.

Just like LV bags, they are popular because they are rare.If the streets are full of LV bags, the brand appeal will be reduced, and the product belief will be gone.

If AI products want to develop, they must be popularized.

The more users, the greater the training volume and the more mature.

This attribute means that Rokid cannot only provide services to Aster series mobile phones, and the more users it serves, the better.

Unexpectedly, a point that Zhou Buqi said next was very exciting, "From a technical perspective, Samsung is much better than Asda. By the way, how is Asda's chip business doing?" How is it?"

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "It's okay. We should be able to produce samples this year. It's a borrowed ARM framework. The development difficulty can be lower."

Zhou Buqi now has three chip businesses in his hands.

One is Asda, which is working on a 4G processor chip, mainly using the ARM framework for chip design.This is of course a sophisticated business, but in the entire chip industry, chip design is the easiest.

The second one is the AI ​​chip that Shen Xiangyang focuses on.

It is a chip specially used to process AI algorithms.

Because it is dedicated to the field of artificial intelligence, the performance of AI-related algorithms will be extremely powerful.

Just like face recognition, if there is a special AI chip in the mobile phone, the unlocking speed can be faster and the accuracy rate will be higher;

Another example is that WeChat and Helo will be equipped with Rokid assistants in the future, but as an AI product, Rokid needs a lot of algorithm support. If there is no AI chip in the mobile phone, it will be very difficult to run, and it may even cause the app to crash.If it is equipped with an AI chip, it will be much smoother, and the response speed of the AI ​​​​assistant will be much faster.

This is also a high-tech field, which is the combination of chips and artificial intelligence.

This is one of the core businesses of Ziweixing.

The team led by Shen Xiangyang is working on a product called "Rokid-go", which is an AI software for playing Go, and it is an opportunity to show Ziweixing's technology.

This Rokid-go, in addition to the seemingly extremely powerful artificial intelligence algorithm on the surface, is also supported by a powerful AI chip behind it.

Go requires too much computing power.

In the previous life, Google engaged in Alpha Go, and directly connected this product to Google Cloud, relying on hundreds of thousands of servers on the entire cloud platform to provide computing power.

This of course solves the problem with the algorithm.

But it's too expensive.

Too much money!
Alphago costs $1000 in electricity bills to play a game of chess.I want to train the Alpha Go product, and I have trained... 3000 million chess games.

Of course, the early training does not use too much electricity, and the more computing power is needed in the later stage, the greater the power consumption.

Electricity bills alone cost $10 billion.

Who can afford this?

Even Google can’t afford it. After a few years, Google has completely won Go at the technical level. There is no AI algorithm to improve. Once the experiment is over, Google will give up this business.

Ziweixing has to do something more powerful.

It is necessary to have a powerful algorithm!

Save money too!

The way to save money is to use AI chips for processing.

In the era when artificial intelligence dominates the world in the future, AI chips are the indispensable bottom layer.

Ziweixing can also be regarded as the first technology company in the world to lay out this track.

There is also a third business, which is the server chip that Ziweiyun will make. This is relatively easy, and it is completely incomparable with mobile phone chips and AI chips.

But even if the three major chip businesses are successful, it will be difficult to hold Samsung.

Samsung is already a world-class semiconductor giant.

Zhou Buqi said: "A lot of spare parts of Asda need to be purchased from Samsung Electronics. In this kind of purchase order, it is difficult for any company to gain the dominance on Samsung's side except Apple."

"Yes."

Zhou Shaoning's tone was heavy.

This is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

For many suppliers, they have to be checked and balanced by downstream brand owners, and they have no negotiating ability. If you are disobedient, they will not cooperate with you, and you will find other suppliers to purchase.

In order to maintain the cooperative relationship, many suppliers have to rack their brains to please others.

For example, the suppliers of Yuanwei Group wish to invite the vice president of procurement of Yuanwei Group to go around Dongguan City every day to arrange a one-stop Dongguan-style service for him.

Samsung is different.

Master the real core technology.

As a supplier, you always hold the dominant position in the negotiation. If you don’t buy from Samsung... Humph, you won’t be able to buy such a good product elsewhere.

Asda is also restricted by Samsung Electronics.

Including Ma Pingshan, who will come to Seoul tomorrow.

He came to South Korea this time to get a purchase order for a drone avionics system from Samsung Electronics.

The bargaining power is almost all on Samsung's side.

This is hard.

Domestic technology companies have no background, and their years are too short. The longest is 30 to [-] years. Not to mention that most companies have not done technology research and development, even if they have done it, how much accumulation can they have?

This is especially true for Estar and Bajixing.

Without bargaining power, it is easy to be manipulated by upstream suppliers.

Zhou Buqi has to try to alleviate this problem as much as possible from other directions, "Samsung Electronics' technical strength is very strong, so powerful that it even surpasses the domestic electronics industry. But they also have weaknesses, that is, the lack of software, especially artificial intelligence. field. Rokid may be the solution.”

"Ah?" Zhou Shaoning was startled, "Rokid?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Let Samsung mobile phones use Rokid, which is luxury. Although the voice version of Rokid is difficult to change the industry's ability in a short period of time, one thing is certain , this will still be the best AI voice assistant in the industry, and Ziweixing will continue to increase investment. It is easy to get in the car, but difficult to get off!"

"When the technology matures in a few years, Samsung should launch its own AI assistant..."

Zhou Shaoning understands the big model of the Samsung Group. Except for those whose technology is not up to or not in the current stage, most of the business is self-sufficient.

Now, Samsung Electronics is unable to develop a product comparable to Rokid and Siri, so it can only purchase the service of Ziweixing.

When the technology matures in the future, Samsung will definitely do it by itself, and it is impossible to tie itself to Ziweixing.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, they can do it themselves, but the threshold of artificial intelligence is so high, they can make an excellent product like Rokid as soon as they get started? When they launch their own products, they will definitely It has been complained about. At that time, the brand of Samsung mobile phones will be affected, which will affect the sales. Asda will rise."

Zhou Shaoning felt much more comfortable, "It's true that consumers' sense of loss is the loss of brand value. From a long-term perspective, it will indeed be beneficial to Asda."

Zhou Buqi said: "Especially when the original Rokid language model is trained... Hehe, it will definitely shine in the world and truly change the world. At that time, Samsung may have to rely on Rokid came into his arms. At that time, it was truly grasping Samsung. Just like Apple, it not only uses the market to make technology, but also uses technology to make technology.”

(End of this chapter)